TABLE X. SACRED LAW
1. A dead person shall not be buried or burned in the city.[59]
2. More than this shall not be done. The funeral pyre (rogum) shall not be smoothed with the axe.[60]
3. [Expenses of a funeral shall be limited to] three [mourners wearing] veils and one [mourner wearing] small purple tunic and ten flute-players.
4. Women shall not tear their cheeks or have a lessus (sorrowful outcry)[61] on account of the funeral.
5. The bones of a dead person shall not be collected that one may make a funeral afterward.[62] An exception is for death in battle or on foreign soil.[63]
6. Anointing by slaves and every kind of drinking-bout is abolished … [there shall be] no costly sprinkling, no myrrh-spiced drink, no long garlands, no incense-boxes.
7. Whoever wins a crown (corona)[64] himself or through his chattel[65] or by his valor, sine fraude).
8. This also shall not be done: to make more than one funeral and to spread more than one bier for one person.
9. Gold shall not be added [to a corpse]. But him whose teeth shall have been fastened with gold, if a person shall bury or shall burn him with that (gold), it shall be with impunity (sine fraude).
10. It is forbidden for a new pyre (rogum) or a burning-mound (bustum) to be erected nearer than sixty feet to another person's buildings without the owner's consent.[66]
11. It is forbidden for a vestibule of a sepulcher (forum) and a burning-mound (bustum)[67] to be acquired by usucapion.